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Alastair Norcross
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Re: Electronic or mechanical shutter?

John Sheehy wrote:

José B wrote:

Rafavox wrote:

Do you guys mostly use electronic shutter instead of mechanical, I can see advantages like avoiding wear and tear of the shutter mechanism. What is the general rule for that? electronic 99% of the time and for fast moving objects like cars, birds, planes etc mechanical

I just got the R6MKII. I intend to shoot some sports with it mainly outdoor tennis and indoor volleyball. I've seen the samples of tennis shots using ES. The rolling shutter looks well controlled as concluded by the ones who tried it out at the launch.

From my experience of using ES with the Sony A6600 for tennis, it's really not too bad. Yes there are some images where the racquets looks elongated and or the balls are egg-shaped. However, most of it happens on tennis serves. So with the R6MKII I plan to use high speed bursts via mechanical shutter for serves and ES for everything else like ground strokes. Also, I assume that the read out speed of the R6MKII is a lot faster than the Sony A6600.

Wouldn't it be nice to have two shutter buttons, where the 2nd one had alternate settings? Just choose them in real time, like the way one moves their right foot between the brakes and the accelerator in a car.

On both my R7 and R6II I have the movie record button set to toggle silent shooting on and off. I find this to be a really quick way to access e-shutter, and preferable to having a second shutter button, which I would be more likely to accidentally press.

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